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26-05-10, 10:06 PM
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I saw lightning strike a plane tonight!
I was outside earlier having a fag and I happened to look up at a plane on approach to Edinburgh airport as it flew overhead.
The sky was heavy and dark and just spitting on to rain. As the plane passed under the cloud it must have just been enought to spark the lightening and it travelled via the plane and down to the ground about quarter of a mile away! What a sight! Bloody loud too! Right place at the right time!  C |
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26-05-10, 10:13 PM
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Re: I saw lightning strike a plane tonight!
Awsome, you luck git! I love heavy weather like that.
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26-05-10, 10:15 PM
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Re: I saw lightning strike a plane tonight!
sounds awesome, i need to start getin in the right places more, i miss everything
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26-05-10, 10:20 PM
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Would they of known they had been hit by lightening? Presume planes have some sort of err anti-lightening shield haha?? Like batfink - his wings are shields of steel!! 
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27-05-10, 01:10 AM
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Re: I saw lightning strike a plane tonight!
^ planes have conductors or something on each wing to deal with the lightning
would have loved to see that
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27-05-10, 02:14 AM
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Re: I saw lightning strike a plane tonight!
I was in a plane that got struck by lightning about 3 or 4 times.
Not the most fun I have ever had to be honest.
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27-05-10, 06:18 AM
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Re: I saw lightning strike a plane tonight!
I have been on a small jet, 70 seats i think, flying back into the states from mexico during a heavy storm, lightening all around us, plane up and down like a fiddlers elbow, wife was shatting herself, was good to experience, wouldnt want to again though.
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27-05-10, 07:25 AM
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27-05-10, 07:41 AM
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27-05-10, 09:52 AM
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Re: I saw lightning strike a plane tonight!
Ah, good point!
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